Current Academic Research Projects
Next to my artistic research, I am also involved in academic research. On this page, you can read more about my current academic research projects. I mainly focus on three themes – the Cyborg Mermaid, Inside the Autside, and #KingAlfred – but also dabble in related subjects. As an academic, my keywords are autism, cyborgs, fanart, games, languages, medievalism, mermaids, music(ology), (neuro)psychology. The Cyborg Mermaid As a PhD student at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, I am writing my thesis about the Cyborg Mermaid, or to be more concrete: about the ways modern media empower people to create new stories based on mermaid mythology. What fascinates me most about the study of fantastic beings is that the way in which we shape them tells us so …